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This is a pretty interesting thread about how filesystems aren't necessarily read-only, even when you want them to be. Make sure to also see this insightful co
by purpleidea 5y ago
This is a pretty interesting thread about how filesystems aren't necessarily read-only, even when you want them to be.
Make sure to also see this insightful comment here: https://twitter.com/mgeb/status/1384262575961960456 https://twitter.com/mgeb/status/1384262575961960456
> For xfs we had corner cases where even with all necessary read-only flags it would still modify the FS on mount.
I wouldn't count on all the corner cases being clean, eg. does the FS code really honor the R/O flag when hitting a checksum error, or does it try to repair it?